Re: Tape Drive Woes

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> Have you tried just regular tar?
>
> tar cvf /some/directory /dev/st0

/dev/st0 is nonresponsive.  The tape whirs during boot-up and dmesg lists
the drive as mentioned before.  Other than this, nothing.

> Also, check the permissions on /dev/st0 to see if your user is allowed
> to access it.  Good luck,

I'm running as root.  Here's the ls -al:

crw-rw----   1 root     disk       9,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/st0
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steve



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